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Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) chief technology officer is working toward a day when people can control almost any piece of software with their voice.
The company on Wednesday rolled out the technology powering Alexa, its voice assistant that competes with Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) Siri, to developers so they can build chat features into their own apps, CTO Werner Vogels said in an interview. The service, Amazon Lex, was in a preview phase since late 2016.
[...] Processing vast quantities of data is key to artificial intelligence, which lets voice assistants decode speech. Amazon will take the text and recordings people send to apps to train Lex - as well as Alexa - to understand more queries.
That could help Amazon catch up in data collection. As popular as Amazon's Alexa-powered devices are, such as Echo speakers, the company has sold an estimated 10 million or more. Apple has sold hundreds of millions of iPhones and other devices with Siri.
[...] As with other cloud-based services, Amazon will charge developers based on how many text or voice requests Lex processes.
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-rolls-chatbot-tools-race-181632556.html
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 22 2017, @01:37AM (2 children)
Amazon will charge developers based on how many text or voice requests Lex processes.
Which is the important bit. Your app business is now prisoner to the whim of Bezos. Something as history has show.. will be abused.
That leads to the next question. How far has free and open source recording come?
Which software is recommended?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:13AM (1 child)
they are always trying to recruit me, they even invited me to a job fair in Portland.
I won't work for Amazon because of what Bezos did to the Washington Post, and because Amazon won a supreme court case that found that its workers were not owed pay for the time they wait to be searched as they leave work.
I even turned them down when I was homeless.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 22 2017, @11:51AM
What did Bezos do to the Washington Post?
Anyway I more and more get the impression that Bezos is just a modern slave driver with a empty soul.
As for recruitment. Demand that they offer living quarters in order to work for them. Either if it's a apartment near work with low rent or a low rent house loan for a low priced house nearby. Everything such that you don't need to sign away most of your salary to just live or your time to just get to work. Their response would be interesting.. ;)